Yamsk

Yamsk lies at the mouth of the Yama, beside an estuary separated from Yam Bay by a sandspit. The bay opens into Shelikhov Gulf at the northeastern end of the Sea of Okhotsk. The Yama descends from the Maymandzhin mountains through the interior to this coastal inlet. Russian explorers established a winter post in the Yama country in the seventeenth century; a later Yamsk fort was founded in 1739.